INTERVIEW: How The Rauch Brothers Make Shorts for PBS
Rauch Brothers Animation, operated by Brooklyn-based Mike and Tim Rauch, epitomizes all that is good about New York animation. A couple …
Rauch Brothers Animation, operated by Brooklyn-based Mike and Tim Rauch, epitomizes all that is good about New York animation. A couple …
This is one of the strangest things I’ve ever plugged on Cartoon Brew. We all know Leslie Cabarga as the author of The Logo, Font, & …
The legacy of animation designer/writer John Dunn (1920-1983) is secure–if unheralded–as the writer of hundreds of animated shorts …
John Canemaker’s eagerly anticipated book, Two Guys Named Joe: Master Animation Storytellers Joe Grant & Joe Ranft, will arrive in stores …
Recently I revisited The Visual Craft of William Golden, a book published in the early-Sixties about the legendary CBS creative director. …
(click for large version) Shane Glines of the indispensable Cartoon Retro has sent over a fascinating 1935 article, titled …
I was bummed when animation artist Chris Ishii passed away in 2001 because I’d had his phone number on my desktop for quite a while and …
Great news for fans of Walt Kelly (like me). Fantagraphics Books has acquired the rights to publish a comprehensive series of Walt …
Kip W has posted some amazing animation artifacts on Flickr: coverage of the 1941 Disney strike as reported in New York’s leftist daily …
Our friend Leslie Cabarga purchased several bound volumes of old newspapers from San Francisco years ago, and was going through them …
In the 1920s, some kids around the Los Angeles area contributed drawings and stories to “The Junior Times” which was an insert of the LA …
A roundup of recent non-animation books that have caught my attention: I don’t know how Lane Smith does it, but every one of his …
Here’s the best thing I’ve found online this week: a three-part video interview from 2001 with all-star cartoonists living in Carmel, …
John Canemaker’s Winsor McCay – His Life and Art, his 1987 biography of the great newspaper cartoonist and pioneer animator, will be …
SHEEP IN THE BIG CITY creator Mo Willems, who recently picked up his second Caldecott Honor for KNUFFLE BUNNY,writes in to let me know …
Daily visual inspiration for the rest of ’05. Sweet! Here’s an awesome BLOG where somebody (“Filboid Sudge”) is uploading the 1944 …